Falls are the contributing factor to both fatal and nonfatal injuries in the elderly.Therefore,pre-impact fall detection,which identifies a fall before the body collides with the floor,would be essential.Recently,rese...Falls are the contributing factor to both fatal and nonfatal injuries in the elderly.Therefore,pre-impact fall detection,which identifies a fall before the body collides with the floor,would be essential.Recently,researchers have turned their attention from post-impact fall detection to pre-impact fall detection.Pre-impact fall detection solutions typically use either a threshold-based or machine learning-based approach,although the threshold value would be difficult to accu-rately determine in threshold-based methods.Moreover,while additional features could sometimes assist in categorizing falls and non-falls more precisely,the esti-mated determination of the significant features would be too time-intensive,thus using a significant portion of the algorithm’s operating time.In this work,we developed a deep residual network with aggregation transformation called FDSNeXt for a pre-impact fall detection approach employing wearable inertial sensors.The proposed network was introduced to address the limitations of fea-ture extraction,threshold definition,and algorithm complexity.After training on a large-scale motion dataset,the KFall dataset,and straightforward evaluation with standard metrics,the proposed approach identified pre-impact and impact falls with high accuracy of 91.87 and 92.52%,respectively.In addition,we have inves-tigated fall detection’s performances of three state-of-the-art deep learning models such as a convolutional neural network(CNN),a long short-term memory neural network(LSTM),and a hybrid model(CNN-LSTM).The experimental results showed that the proposed FDSNeXt model outperformed these deep learning models(CNN,LSTM,and CNN-LSTM)with significant improvements.展开更多
基金This research project was also supported by the Thailand Science Research and Innovation Fundthe University of Phayao(Grant No.FF66-UoE001)King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok under Contract No.KMUTNB-66-KNOW-05.
文摘Falls are the contributing factor to both fatal and nonfatal injuries in the elderly.Therefore,pre-impact fall detection,which identifies a fall before the body collides with the floor,would be essential.Recently,researchers have turned their attention from post-impact fall detection to pre-impact fall detection.Pre-impact fall detection solutions typically use either a threshold-based or machine learning-based approach,although the threshold value would be difficult to accu-rately determine in threshold-based methods.Moreover,while additional features could sometimes assist in categorizing falls and non-falls more precisely,the esti-mated determination of the significant features would be too time-intensive,thus using a significant portion of the algorithm’s operating time.In this work,we developed a deep residual network with aggregation transformation called FDSNeXt for a pre-impact fall detection approach employing wearable inertial sensors.The proposed network was introduced to address the limitations of fea-ture extraction,threshold definition,and algorithm complexity.After training on a large-scale motion dataset,the KFall dataset,and straightforward evaluation with standard metrics,the proposed approach identified pre-impact and impact falls with high accuracy of 91.87 and 92.52%,respectively.In addition,we have inves-tigated fall detection’s performances of three state-of-the-art deep learning models such as a convolutional neural network(CNN),a long short-term memory neural network(LSTM),and a hybrid model(CNN-LSTM).The experimental results showed that the proposed FDSNeXt model outperformed these deep learning models(CNN,LSTM,and CNN-LSTM)with significant improvements.
